Electronic scorer for bowling games



United States Patent 1 1 3,550,939

[72] Inventor Jerome F- Walk 3,375,352 3/1968 House et al. 273/54(C)X Kirtland, Ohio 3,433,479 3/ 1969 l-luck et a1. 273/54(C) [21] Appl. No. 612,665 3,435,120 3/1969 Cornell et a1. 273/54(C) Filed FOREIGN PATENTS Patented Dec. 29, 19 Assignee Brunswick Corporation 742,108 9/1966 Canada 273/54(C) a corporation of Delawa e Primary Examiner-Anton O. Oechsle:

ELECTRONIC SCORER FOR BOWLING GAMES Attorneyl-lofgren, Wegner, Allen, Stellman and McCord 35 Claims, 49 Drawing Figs. ABSTRACT: A bowling scoring system having a single corn 2 U S Cl 273 s4 putation means for computing scores bowled on any of a plu- (5 1 e I I n s I s v s e a s s s a s s v a a I s n a 1, 51 I t Cl 5/04 system; (2) computes anew at the end of each frame a team I 1 4 C Sc e e t a y corrections m t bowleris [50] 0 51 scores, includes all pinfall actually earned by bowlers on the 3 1 6) team and will be for a discrete team frame whether or not all 56 R f c1 d bowlers on the team are bowling in the same frame; (3) is l 1 e 8 adapted to be selectively conditioned to score league bowling UNITED STATES PATENTS on all lanes, open bowling on all lane-s or league bowling on 3,399,297 8/1968 Miller 273/54(C)X some lanes and open bowling on other lanes; (4) includes 2,590,444 3/1952 Millman et a1... ...1(273/54(C)UX) logic which anticipates the nature of a subsequent readout and 3,124,355 3/ 1964 Mentzer et a1... 273/54(C) conditions a readout device for the readout in advance of the 3,295,439 1 l 967 Miller et al. 273/54(C)X operation; (5 incorporates a separate printer for readout for 3,295,849 III 967 Miller et a1. 273/54(C) each lane to be scored; and (6) is formed of a number of elec- 3,300,2l3 1/1967 Miller 273/54(C) tronic registers fabricated primarily of semiconductor com- 3,362,286 1/1968 Webb et a1 272/54(C)X ponents.

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